The design of a switching system to allow remote access to computer services by other computers and terminal devices
Published 1 January 1971
R.A. Scantlebury, P. T. Wilkinson
Citations18
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An experimental store-and-forward data communication network has been set up within the National Physical Laboratory site, intended to meet the requirements of computer to computer communications in a general manner, permitting resource-sharing applications and remote-access computer services to be developed in the Laboratory.
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An experimental store-and-forward data communication network has been set up within the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) site. The system represents one element of a national data network scheme proposed by NPL.
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